India, May 23 -- A delegation of the Indraprastha Vikas Party (IVP), the breakaway faction of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) municipal councillors and leaders, on Thursday met lieutenant governor VK Saxena and chief minister Rekha Gupta, sparking outrage from the AAP, which termed the formation of the IVP an attempt by the Bharatiya Janata Party at "political horse-trading".

A 16-member IVP delegation demanded "immediate guidelines should be issued to the officers to immediately arrange for the budget for the wards of the party's corporators and start the public welfare works which have been stalled for the past two and a half years," according to a statement issued by the party.

IVP leader Mukesh Goyal said: "During the last two-and-a-half year...